Sunrise

Met a friend

Did my first individual transfer today, with an osteoporotic lady. She screamed all of a sudden, which freaked me out. But Joanna, my supervisor, was so confident that nothing had gone wrong with the transfer. Thanks sooo much for believing in me.

It was a slow day today. The highlight of the day was the lunch with Edwin. He hasn't changed much except the fact the he started running a while ago.

Why is everybody doing marathons these days? Running is so freaking boring. I've run, but after the first or second time, it has already been a drag for me.. what is it going to end.... are we there yet??..ugh...

Anyways, he admitted that running was damn boring. But he said that people are actually fun to hang out with. So, point taken. And we all know that it's a healthier lifestyle.

He's such a nice friend. I would love to see him again, on court may be...

Placement con't

It's my third day of placement, and I already started to do documentation. It's electronic documentation!!! How neat!! They adapt this DARP format instead of SOAP which is going to take some time for me to get familiar with.

The first day was basically orientation. I have already met all of my patient by Tuesday and treating them on Wednesday. That was quite a bit for two days. Besides seeing patients and treating them, I sat in a board meeting and a family meeting. This is making me so excited and I love what I am doing here.

The supervisor is very very nice. We are like buddies than "teacher & student" which I think is amazing. Because only in a relaxed environment, I can ensure that there is learning going on. We've talked about learning objectives today, that I would like to provide a more holistic treatment plan for patients, and raise the awareness of the roles of other team members.

Really... Thank God for bringing me here.

Last night I went to a new volleyball friend's house. She made Indian food. It was delicious. Oh my God, the rice, the chicken and the yogurt thingie were unbelievably tasty. I've gotta learn some Indian cooking myself. Yummy.....








On tuesday morning, like really really early morning, my phone rang. Stupid cell phone, the alarm ran off again. I took it out and tried to turn it off. It was actually a morning call from Jersey. What the heck?! The first thing he said was "Wow you're up already?!" .... I was like... 'why would you call if you don't think i am up???' That was a surprise in the morning :) and I appreciate that.

First day of placement

I was f-king late on the first day because of the stupid train. Well, i missed my train.

But the orientation was great... just needed to get my chest x-ray done and blood test because it was too long ago that I had my vacinnation.

So case type: I totally thought I was going to do outpatient geriatrics. It ends up to be Geriatrics inpatient.

Therefore, I am pretty screwed because I did not have my mind set to geriatrics inpatients. I should have brought my notes from Queen Mary Hospital, those were very very useful. Damnit.

Otherwise, the working environment is actually very friendly. My clinical educators are very very nice. At least they didn't yell at me when I was late on the first day.

Will have more explosure tomorrow in the ward and stuff because we actually work closely with other allied health, including OTs. Allied health is named as health disciplines here.

I am exposed to the very important coffee shops in the hospital. Pretty sure I will rely on them for survival LOL.

Will update more when I know more.

My last relaxin weekend

Before the first day of placement, I had a reverse 6 vball tournament on Saturday. I played 6 whole games, without libero. It was an exhausted weekend but I won a VOLLEYBALL!!!! Met some really nice people too. Richard set really nice balls for me and we talked quite a bit. Lisa and I just kept talking nonstop when we were ref-ing. And she invited me out for dinner as well. Skyler gave me a ride home, omg... i lived far, so we kept talking nonstop as well. So besides playing vball, I talked the whole day on Saturday. Geez, since when I turned myself into a chatterbox.

Sunday was an amazing church day. We were celebrating Chinese New Year, so we had lunch together. Met my good old friends and young kids from the youth group. Some of the remember me and wanted to play vball with me. So funny that my name's actually attached to vball. This day ended with a buffet. The buffet itself was nothing special but, BUT, the CHEESECAKES were the most amazing thing on earth. In addition to the traditional New York plain cheesecakes, they had cherry cheesecake (which i am not very fond of) and MANGO CHEESECAKE which was a heaven on earth. OMG.. I had two slices of them and for once I didn't care how fattening they were.

Gotta get prepared for tomorrow's placement. Right my first day of placement!!!

Nice & Relaxin

0What a nice and relaxing weekend here in Toronto!!

Meeting up with my vball friends on Thursday night, had a wonderful practice with them. So good to see them again. Then one of the girls asked me to play a tourny on Sat. I am just toooo excited!!!

My original plan was meeting up with my ex-co-worker Lisa on Friday. However, I figured it was too far to go downtown. Therefore I spent the whole day watching the Australian open at home. Nadal was playing against Verdasco. It was such an amazing game. Both of them sprinted on the court. Even though Verdasco had a muscle cramp, he got over it and gave 110% effort. I kinda want Verdasco to beat Nadal but in the end, Nadal was more experienced. Geez.. what an incredible game.








We finally figured, that I am going to Jersey instead. Because he thinks it's gonna be too much for me. But my impression was that first of all he wanted me to meet his friends, and secondly he wanted to stay focused on his training once he gets to Florida. I am actually glad that it worked out to be this way because I don't have anything relating to summer with me.

And then out of the blue, he said something like "oh I am not gonna see you again after your visit....". Honestly did not know how to react to this.....

Let it SNOW Let it SNOW

It was a snowy snowy day today. When I looked outside of the window, it was all white.

People got annoyed with the snow, but I kinda enjoyed it since it's been too long since the last time I played with the snow.

Snowie snowie snowie snowie snowie snowie Snowie snowie snowie snowie

Quiet day, visiting my aunt.

The first thing she asked me was her neck/shoulder pain. What an aunt.....

Snowie snowie snowie snowie snowie snowie Snowie snowie snowie snowie

I called too late last night that he was probably asleep. So we talked earlier today. He said he wanted to go to Florida for training in the warm weather during the spring break, after my visit. But he wondered where to stay.

Then all of a sudden he went, "Oh My God..... Oh My God...."
"What is it?"
"My parents have a house in Florida and I totally forgot about that!!!"
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
And he invited me to Florida with him.

It feels so close.
I am still deciding..... if it's not too expensive...... well....

Safely LanDed

Finally I get my ass back to Toronto.

Got a litte jet lag, I got up in the morning and tweezed my eyebrows hahahaha

This is the first day I spent in here, so I went downtown to see a friend from PolyU. Since I lived at 19th and 9th avenue, which is freakin freakin far, I needed to take the GO transit downtown. I had no clue where I was that's why I needed a map.

Got lost even though I had a map in my hands.

Luckily, I met a guy who was walking his dogs. He showed me the way to the station, and asked me if I needed a ride. So nice....

Then following his instructions, I still got stuck in a crossroad. A black guy walked by and said, "Take the left one. It's faster." I probably looked too lost that people had to say something to me. Then he walked with me to the station.

This is what I meant "feels like home". Everybody's so friendly, helping out the neighbours.

Arrived downtown in an hour, I walked in the supermarket I used to go a lot. Geez... the 10 millions types of cheese, $2.99 Breyer's ice-cream, 10 thousands types of salad dressings, 3/$10 2L yogurts, skim milk in plastic bags, different types of oven made dinner. THIS IS so GREAT.

God I LUV Canada, even though it's freakin' cold out there.








Oh.. it was nice talking to him again. He kept saying, "OMG, I can't believe you're here already." But the thing is, I am not there yet. He's gonna be busy this week + saturday and I found out that I have way too many activities during this weekend. Therefore, I decided to visit after my placement, which is mid March. It's nice to hear from him from North America.